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σμησάμενοι, ‘having soaped their heads.’ The Persian king did this once a year on his birthday, ix. 110. 2. The transition is curious; the use of vapour baths for purification after a funeral leads to an account of ways of cleaning in general.

πίλους. With the construction of the bath-tents cf. the ‘Kibitks’ of bent wood and felt in Pallas, Voyages en différentes provinces de l'Empire de Russie (Paris 1788), i. 503-4 and Plate 14.

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